The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-09-22

united and had conspired to do this awful work
and that thetr common design was fulfilled, Ii
their terrible plot. and the opinion shows that
culprits desire on tho several parts and puf-
poses to accomplish the Same ends
THE QUESTIONS PRESENTED
are: Did the defendants have q common pur.
pose or design to murder these police? Did th1y
combine for that purpose. and was the result q
that Killed Dexen? The bomb Was ro n1 31 md
was - by Is base ball says Competent Wit:
knew it was rsSnd bomb The CO court foYloWs
IN the description OF the various bombs in use
OF s..i known to anarchists and scientists,
THESE. Or tho ms; deadly q Them ~ere m snas
t 1y LOUIS 1meG Judging from what hail been
With Wi,i:sA seliger, who was a German car
1883. and who seemed to be an expert in bomb
making. and In March. 1886. brought dynamite
by these gentlemen In their peculiar tr1dei all
OF which 20 to show that these two gen,leihSn
were expert: in their business. The evtdepbe
Friday before tho haymarket meeting. met, md
hihRg brought to seliger's house large wcoden
box, three feet Tong and from sixteen to eighteen
and that he JLingR) spent that evening in filling
aynamlte into gas pipe and Glcbuiar shells,
using Nat piece OF wood. which he had made
Tor mat parpose and he was also ASST stcd by
them. Upwards OF fifty bombs were
finished that afternoon. aud it appears to have
been continued till the very evening Of tho
Aaymarket meeting. The record goes on i'm
plicatnQ others, especially Que Heebner, who
was seen working at some coil fuse, and LinRg,
se'iger, Thalen and Herman wero frequently
sng!xed In casting and melting in Seliger'a
Kitchen. Pieces OF shells made by Lingg were
subjected to chemical ANALYSIS. and were found
To be composed Of ! certain percentage of tin
and the remainder Of lead and anti1nony. iron
the percentage varied but little. and the pieces
taken from Degen's body and those found n
Alngg's after his arrest we're OF the same COM
position The evidence goes on to further ca; a.
pl1cate Ltngg's connection with this terrible
affair so closely that escape for him would Is
impossible. After fastening The evidence upon On
LinRg's guilt the court asks the question::
WHY DID L1NeG MAKE THE BOMB
which killed began? To answer this it be.
comes necessary to examine the character Of the
connected, and its aims There was no dues lion
about this organizations; nor little about its OBJ
9ects. Its platform was published by tho Alarm
ana the a. Arbeiter zeitoag Tho court quoted
them are the peculiar ideas of the communists,
the Adjustment OF titles to lands and a sort OF
1readom which is far beyond Or ages in the rea.
OF modern civilization, and in OF these arti-
cies tho charge is made that the state, the
churches, the schools and the press arc
IN me pay and under the sway Of the
capitalist, and that the laborers must overthrow
these powers by physical strength. It is adj
mltted. and even positively asserted that such
thing as right OF property is not only a myth,
but great wrong to those who by laziness and
other faults have nev-r earned property. or BY
their want OF THRIFT cannot keep such as they
may have had. This association subverts ali
aud laws. and then they will lind tha: they are
hemmed with law, but yet ti:n yoke is so light
that none will feel it. There was %nothe news.
F E'I;d.n called esln. the Alarm and defendan'
OF Enecl and others Of these defendsnss. The
court proceeded to connect the other 'eionies ii
the case. Tor Instance, that these NOV ms were
the chief movers. and the center OF any and ali
communisU!c meetings in Chicago, and that they
We're IN person and were always pronounced
that there were twenty-five to thirty labol
unions In Chicago at that time. embracing q
membership Of from fifteen Thousand 20 sixteen
Thousand. A large majority OF these men were
for their daily bread, we'll meaning
men and had no thought of ararchs
or any OF Its hateful doctrines The asscmblaEe
full, but it was conducted as an uniawfui assem-,
blaRe, even p: Tor to the arming and drilling o
the group and was violation OF the militar,
fully and maliciously violated the laws Of The
State Of Illinois and they shall suffer the ex:
tremc penalty liked by the court Of Cook counts
on the day previously stated As specimens o.
weapons by which depraved men or men with
no heart could use against their fellow creatures
nothing in modern times can approach the ex.
qu1site means devised by these anarchists, and
they seemed to have made 4 study OF that aw ful
purpose. The court very carefully explains thu
aw 40 TO conspiracy in all it's phases, ana quotei
extensively from eminent authorities. We thinl
that the course pursued on the trial in regard tt
the manner Of empanncl,ns the jury was cor,
rect and in accordance with tho law. The state
Is not called upon to tender tho defendants
second panel before the defendants tender Il
back four. We cannot see that the remarks Of
the states attorney in tie argument to the jur,
were marked by any such impropricties as re-
quire reversal OF the Judgment. In theil
lengthy argument counsel for the defense rails,
some other points Of minor importance which
arc not noticed. A. to these it is sufficient K
say that we have considered and do not regard
them well taken. The Judgment OF the criminal
court Of Cook county is affirmed.